Midwest Wilderness Connections Eco-briefs and Eco-sweeps
Midwest Wilderness Connections Eco-brief: Midwe...
Many Midwest streams and rivers have been straightened by channelization. The soil removed from the stream channel is often sidecast next to the stream creating levees that block the stream...
Midwest Wilderness Connections Eco-brief: Midwe...
Many Midwest streams and rivers have been straightened by channelization. The soil removed from the stream channel is often sidecast next to the stream creating levees that block the stream...
MWC Eco-brief: Stream Detritus
Detritus consisting of leaves, sticks, or other organic debris is essential to steam life. This material provides food, shelter, and chemical conditions that influence instream wildlife communities. Detritus jumpstarts the...
MWC Eco-brief: Stream Detritus
Detritus consisting of leaves, sticks, or other organic debris is essential to steam life. This material provides food, shelter, and chemical conditions that influence instream wildlife communities. Detritus jumpstarts the...
MWC Eco-brief: Cricket Frog
The Blanchard's cricket frog is a declining species in the northern portions of their Upper Midwest Range. This species hides along muddy banks where it's amazingly well camouflaged in color...
MWC Eco-brief: Cricket Frog
The Blanchard's cricket frog is a declining species in the northern portions of their Upper Midwest Range. This species hides along muddy banks where it's amazingly well camouflaged in color...
MWC Eco-brief: Why did the turtle cross the road?
This rare Blanding’s Turtle was attempting to cross a busy highway, so I stopped and helped him cross safely. This time of year, many of the turtles crossing the road...
MWC Eco-brief: Why did the turtle cross the road?
This rare Blanding’s Turtle was attempting to cross a busy highway, so I stopped and helped him cross safely. This time of year, many of the turtles crossing the road...
MWC Eco-brief: Beauty and the Beast
We all marvel at the beauty and acrobatics of dragonflies and damselflies. Less well known is that years of their life are spent underwater as nymphs; the T-Rex...
MWC Eco-brief: Beauty and the Beast
We all marvel at the beauty and acrobatics of dragonflies and damselflies. Less well known is that years of their life are spent underwater as nymphs; the T-Rex...
MWC Eco-brief: Got Oxygen?
Got oxygen? Stream water holds less available oxygen than air. Water picks up dissolved oxygen (DO) where mixing occurs and when plants & algae release DO during photosynthesis. How much...
MWC Eco-brief: Got Oxygen?
Got oxygen? Stream water holds less available oxygen than air. Water picks up dissolved oxygen (DO) where mixing occurs and when plants & algae release DO during photosynthesis. How much...
